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Print, Title Page
This is a Print. It was designed by François de Cuvilliés the younger and published by François de Cuvilliés the younger and print maker: François de Cuvilliés the younger. It is dated 1770 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Advisory Council.
It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
It is signed
Lettered in plate, lower center: Inventé et gravé par F. de Cuvillies Capitaine Ingenieur et pr. Architecte de S.A.S.E. de Baviere
It is inscribed
Numbered in plate, upper left corner: 1; lettered upper center above border: Suite de fontaines Publiques et autres Monumens en tous genres a l’usage des Architectes des Peintres et des/ Sculpteurs Dedié a S.A.S.E. de Baviere par son tres humble tres obeissant et tres fidel Serviteur de/ Cuvillies fils presenté le 4me Octobre lan 1770; lettered upper right corner: M; lettered lower right: C.P.R.; lettered lower center: Admiranda vides veteris vestigial fontis,/ Circumstant liquidum rudera multa Deum/ Sic se nobilitat se conficiendo vetustas,/ Dumque ruit, vitam concipit inde novam/ Omnia iempus edax crudely devorat ore/ Sed samae plausus ipsa ruina sovet; lettered lower left: C.P.S.C.M
Cite this object as
Print, Title Page; Designed by François de Cuvilliés the younger (German, 1731 - 1777); Germany; etching and engraving on paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-286-30
